S.Amdt. 3268

SA 3268. Mrs. CAPITO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 14, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2023 through 2031; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ____. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING PRIORITIZATION OF
BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT FUNDING FOR UNSERVED
AREAS.

It is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) deploying high-speed broadband service in rural areas
of the United States is one of the highest infrastructure
priorities; and
(2) any funds spent to deploy broadband service across the
United States must first address building out broadband
infrastructure in unserved areas, which are areas where no
household has access to fixed, terrestrial broadband service
that is consistently delivered with a speed of not less than
25 megabits per second for downloads and 3 megabits per
second for uploads.
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